2024 Black List

All 83 scripts listed in order of votes received including loglines, plus a link where you can download the official list.

Today the 2024 Black List was released to the public. Here is the list ranked by the number of mentions each script received along with loglines.

60 mentions

ONE NIGHT ONLY by Travis Braun
Two strangers scramble to find someone to sleep with on the one night of the year when premarital sex is legal.

39 mentions

PLAYDATE by Marie Østerbye
When taking her daughter to a playdate at a new friend’s house, Alice suddenly comes face to face with her childhood bully, Katrine. An evening of seemingly polite dinner conversation and catching up turns into a night of psychological warfare as the two women reveal the scars of the past and the wounds of the present while their two young daughters play mind games of their own.

38 mentions

ALIGNMENT by Natan Dotan
A board-member at a booming AI company wrestles with corporate politics and warped incentives as he tries to prevent his colleagues’ willful ignorance from causing a global catastrophe.

37 mentions

LOVE OF YOUR LIFE by Julia Cox
Maya — a smart, wry nurse — is swept up in an immersive love, one that sets her life on a trajectory she never would have imagined.

29 mentions

HOW TO SAVE A MARRIAGE by Ross Evans
In hopes of spicing up their marriage, a husband and wife join a mysterious couples retreat, only to discover it’s a front for a dangerous cult.

28 mentions

DON’T BORROW TROUBLE by Caroline Glenn
A broke TaskRabbit in debt to her estranged sugar daddy holds a stolen painting she’s been tasked to deliver for ransom, leading to a deadly cat-and-mouse chase across the weirdest corners of New York City.

25 mentions

ZADDY by Sarah Ramos
Twenty-something fitness instructor Ellie Noone has been toiling away in the LA rat race for years, until her luck changes when she meets an attractive older man with a mysterious past that’s as complicated as his skincare routine.

24 mentions

CLEAN BREAK by Ryan Brennan
Mary, a hair trigger pool hustler, has her hedonistic lifestyle all figured out until she meets Ray, a fellow pool shark. Will she change her ways and let herself fall in love? Or just kill him and make a break for it…

TICKLE ME ELMO by Aaron Karo
The true story of how one toy saved Sesame Street, shocked Wall Street, and tickled the nation.

23 mentions

BUST by Matt Ackels
In 1991, Houston TX, millions of women sport the latest fashion trend: breast implants. But when they develop life-threatening side effects, they’ll need a special kind of lawyer to seek justice. This is the incredible true story of a women’s public health crisis, a gunslinging plaintiff lawyer, and the biggest lawsuit in American history.

22 mentions

THE 7 GUYS YOU DATE BEFORE MARRIAGE by Julia Yorks
After her 10-year relationship collapses, a newly single woman dives back into the dating pool, navigating seven wildly different romantic entanglements that prepare her for her future husband.

NASTY by Isabella Jarosz
After an injury sidelines Dylan’s ability to train for the Olympics, the determined gymnast must regain the trust of her demanding coach while facing off against a prodigious new competitor threatening to eclipse her place in the spotlight.

VANISHED by Samuel Franco , Evan Kilgore
Ten years after she disappeared as a teen, Violet, now 25, turns up with no memory of what happened to her, but as her family welcomes her home, it quickly becomes apparent that the past cannot be forgiven or forgotten.

20 mentions

ASSEMBLY REQUIRED by Kevin Yang
During a clandestine overnight stay in the Burbank IKEA, four friends get caught in a firefight between rival criminal organizations, forcing them to figure out how to save each other — and the store they love so much.

TEST DRIVE by Matt Venne
A down on his luck car salesman takes a mysterious stranger on a test drive — which turns into a dangerous and unsettling crime spree across the rain-soaked streets of Los Angeles.

19 mentions

BLOODY MINGO by Jonathan Easley
Investigating the crime scene of a potential homicide in the Appalacian mountainside, a deputy encounters a strange mountain community that claims to be haunted by an evil witch that lives in the woods.

18 mentions

THE 13TH HOUR by Anna Klassen
When a group of teenagers repair an old clock with a mysterious 13th numeral, they are granted an extra hour where their actions have no consequence

BO KNOWS INFINITY by Adam Best
Bo Jackson gets stuck in a time loop. Lessons are learned.

DECOYS by Jack Waz
When two cocky self-proclaimed CIA badasses learn they’re being used as diversions, they must prove to themselves and the world that they’re capable of being real heroes.

DIANA DESTROYS A WEDDING by Elizabeth Evans
When her youngest son proposes to a middle-class farmer, New York business icon DIANA IVY incentivizes her dysfunctional children to protect the family name the only way she knows how… by creating a competition: whoever can break up the couple during their luxurious seven-day destination wedding will inherit The Ivy’s Lake Como Estate.

17 mentions

OVER ASKING by Caroline Dries
After a chance encounter with a powerful female litigator, a seemingly perfect couple begin to ask questions about marriage, power, gender, and sex.

SKIN by Matisse Haddad
When famed Beverly Hills dermatologist Amelia Williams’ status begins to slip as she ages, she makes a revolutionary discovery that allows her to completely revitalize her appearance and maintain her lifestyle. It just requires a bit of murder every now & then.

16 mentions

AMERICAN MONSTERS by Chris Grillot
A senator and his estranged son must fight to survive when they’re stranded at a hunting ranch where mythical beasts from global folklore are genetically engineered as dangerous game.

THE BUSBOY by Elad Ziv
After a mysterious busboy manipulates his way into a job at the most exclusive nightclub in South Beach, he quickly rises through the ranks using ruthless tactics.

FRAGMENTS by Jake Moses
After a tragic accident, a young nurse finds herself blacklisted and out of work until she’s approached by a detective with a unique job offer — become the caretaker for a murder suspect who may be faking his Alzheimer’s diagnosis.

TONY by Lou Howe, Todd Bartels
In 1975, a wayward young Anthony Bourdain stumbles into a summer dishwashing job in Provincetown and discovers his life’s calling.

15 mentions

FELLOWSHIP by Cassie Keet
A burgeoning artist is offered a once in a lifetime fellowship, luring her into the dark side of New York’s elite art world.

SHUTOUT by Alejandro Adams
A talented young pool player from the Bronx navigates the male-dominated world of pool hustling, guided by a seasoned gambler, as she rises to international fame and grapples with the moral complexities of the game.

STARDUST QUEEN by Joe Ferran
A prodigiously gifted young assassin attempts to escape the rule of her vicious step-mother and ascend to fame as a late-90’s pop star.

TIMESHARE by Mark Townend
In the not-too-distant future, where a new technology allows an individual to project their psyche into the body of another, thus creating a body-sharing gig economy, a financially-struggling married couple accepts a wealthy man’s proposal to use the wife’s body for a single night, but soon that decision causes their relationship and lives to spiral out of control with fatal consequences.

TOLUCA LAKE by Mark Fleming
When Gavin discovers the girl of his dreams is actually a persistent hallucination caused by a rapidly growing brain tumor, he’s forced to question what’s real, what really matters, and what’s the best way to end things with someone that’s slowly — or not-so-slowly — killing him.

14 mentions

AIDa by Alexis Jacknow
A new mother finds the perfect nanny in AI, only to learn that a “perfect” caregiver might be the most dangerous kind of all. This psychological thriller examines the disparity between human nature versus AI nurture and asks the question, could AI ever replace us as parents?

TURNAROUND by Elyse Hollander
After beloved movie star Tom Adair is found dead, the outpouring of grief and sympathy quickly elevates his best friend Alec Donavan to movie star status. Now Alec must contend with his newfound fame and success — and the fact that he and his agent/girlfriend Karynn Pieper secretly murdered Tom and are haunted by his vengeful ghost.

13 mentions

CRUSH by Michael Jones
A woman wakes up in a room with no recollection of how she got there. The ceiling descends.

DETOUR by Will Widger
When a feuding rap group’s tour bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, three hip hop superstars find themselves locked in a life-or-death struggle to survive the night as they are hunted by a group of locals with a hidden agenda.

GOOD FOR US by Alix Lerner
After surviving a terrifying home invasion with her two young children, a woman leans on her husband for support, but soon suspects that it was not a random incident and that her husband might have somehow been involved.

HOWL by Madison Vanderberg
All hell breaks loose when a famous — but notoriously troubled — actor announces on a talk show that in less than an hour, he’ll turn into a werewolf … all on live TV.

KING OF THE FRESHMAN by Matt Bailey
During the glittering ascent of Abercrombie & Fitch, a bold CEO and his enigmatic British partner craft an empire of desire, exclusivity, and allure — only to see their legacy unravel as a scandal of exploitation and power threatens to expose the dangerous lengths they went to in their pursuit of perfection.

MOTHERBOY by Tess Brewer
When a woman becomes trapped in a snowstorm with her overbearing mother-in-law and husband over the Thanksgiving holiday, she begins to suspect that their relationship is not as maternal as it seems. BARBARIAN by way of an erotic, Hallmark holiday movie.

OLD SOULS by Hannah Stoddard, Jenny Ulmer
A trio of sassy, elderly women receive a unique offer from Death for a week of youth in exchange for their lives.

PAPARAZZO by Christian Nilsson
Desperate for fast cash to help his ailing mother, an opportunistic outcast partners with a wily paparazzo who entangles them in a homicide involving young celebutantes.

ROAD TEST by Kris Bertin, Naben Ruthnum
A young woman long overdue in getting her driver’s license finally takes her road test, only to find herself receiving direction from a psychotic instructor who wants her dead.

12 mentions

BATO BATO by Donn Kennedy
When his family is murdered and child kidnapped, a Neanderthal goes on an epic rampage journey to save her from the new dominant species.

MOMMY’S HOME by James Morosini
When a 24-year-old woman is unfrozen decades later in a futuristic society, she struggles to adjust while finding herself the unwitting target of a global conspiracy.

OUT THERE by Kate Folk
Based on the short stories “OUT THERE” and “BIG SUR” by Kate Folk. Fresh off a breakup, Meg is thrilled to meet Roger, who seems like the perfect man: disarmingly handsome, sweet, and obsessed with her. But she’ll soon discover that a disturbing secret lies behind Roger’s perfection, and will have to decide how far she’s willing to go on behalf of true love — even if the person she loves happens to be fake.

ROT by Geo Bradley
Haunted by the death of his hoarder mother, an antisocial man suffering from obsessive compulsions takes work as a trauma cleaner in hopes of facing his past, but the job soon begins to infest and unravel his mental state.

THE TELLER by Ben Ripley
A timid, overlooked bank teller with incredible sleight-of-hand dexterity teams up with a rogue FBI agent to rob her own bank.

TRAPPED by Jill Blankenship
A woman trapped in a tight cave shaft must fight to escape when the shaft starts unexpectedly filling up with water

TURPENTINE by Justin Varava
When a deadbeat son hires his friends to rob his own mother and father in order to pay an outstanding debt to a local drug dealer, things don’t go as planned, and family bonds are stretched to their furthest extremes.

THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RAINBOW by Dan Woodward
Inspired by the disastrous making of THE WIZARD OF OZ, Maggie Hamilton fights to keep her role as the Wicked Witch, while resisting the forces stifling Judy Garland’s childhood.

11 mentions

BOY, GIRL, FIG by Kayla Sun
Aden was born with a rare condition where he becomes invisible to those who love him. He struggles when he falls in love with his childhood best friend.

IS THIS YOU? by Kaitlin Fontana
Maura and her mother Jeanne have always had a tricky relationship. But when Jeanne starts publishing essays about her troubled daughter’s teenage years, those versions of her appear like hormone-fueled poltergeists hell-bent on ruining the real Maura’s tenuous adult stability.

LITTLE BLACK DRESS by Alyson Weaver Nicholas
While on hiatus from filming “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” international movie star Audrey Hepburn is recruited by the CIA to hunt down a Nazi criminal hiding in Buenos Aires with ties to her past.

MOM? by Marc Bloom
When a deadly virus infects mothers and turns them against their offspring, a father must do whatever it takes to protect his daughter from her mom.

SATURN RETURN by Gaelyn Golde
Eve and Anders dated for a decade. Now, Eve is going to see Anders for the first time in years… at his dad’s funeral. Together, they confront their shared past and the infinite nature of love, even after it dies.

SPIN THE BOTTLE by Jeff Feuerstein
Convinced her disastrous dating life stems from breaking the rules of Spin the Bottle two decades ago, Hallie enlists her former crush to track down — and finally kiss — the boy she rejected that night, hoping to lift the curse and find true love.

TWIN SOUL by Dani Feito
When a psychiatrist and his sickly wife travel to their country cabin for a quiet Thanksgiving weekend, they will have to deal with the unexpected visit from one of his patients, who claims his dead twin brother is after him for revenge. It will quickly become clear things aren’t what they seem.

VICKY by Alessandra Clark
The incredible true story of Victoria Woodhull’s improbable run to become the first female President of the United States, 50 years before women even had the right to vote.

10 mentions

A BAND OF WOLVES by Reynaldo Leal
After surviving a rival tribe’s raid, a pregnant Mesolithic woman forms an unlikely alliance with a wolf in order to survive the unforgiving prehistoric wilderness.

BRIDGEHAMPTON by Jeremy Leder
Recently dumped Ezra Green accidentally brings a terminally ill woman home to Bridgehampton for a long weekend with his eccentric family. Don’t judge — he needs to cope with his estranged father who just got out of white-collar prison.

CAMP DAVID by Megan Amram, Joseph Carnegie
In 1981, a young George W. Bush and his siblings are hunted by a masked killer while partying at Camp David.

INTIMACY by Sam Rubinek
A rising movie star and her struggling playwright husband meet with a pretentious director and a manipulative intimacy coordinator to rehearse a sex scene. Over one chaotic day, power struggles, petty jealousies, and explosive accusations threaten their marriage — and the careers of everyone involved.

ONBOARDING! by Jackson Kellard
When a group of new hires get invited to their company’s corporate retreat, things quickly take a turn as they discover the only way to land the job is to survive the weekend. Literally.

RIDE OR DIE by Alexander Vargas
A debt-ridden Peloton instructor finds his entire class held hostage by a bomber during one of his live-in-studio classes.

THE ROAD TO COLD VALLEY by Arun Croll
In search of a lost family heirloom, a graduate student and his friends take a road trip to the ruins of the remote Japanese American internment camp where his ancestors were incarcerated during World War II. But after a car breakdown and a series of misunderstandings, the group must fight for their lives as they are stalked across the desert at night by an unhinged, racist mechanic.

THREE HIT MEN AND A BABY by David Matalon, Matthew Altman
Three of the world’s top hitmen must take on their most challenging assignment yet — babysitting an infant who holds the key to their survival.

TIPSY by Barry Galperin, Memo Noriega
A young couple, feeling the pressures of adulthood, are thrown into a supernatural drinking game that tests their commitment, relationship, and more.

TRUE* MERMAID STORY by Matthew Carnahan
A struggling screenwriter’s life spirals into chaos when he becomes obsessed with telling the true* story of a mermaid’s life and death.

UNTIL YOU by Cameron Fay
When a chance encounter thrusts two perpetually single best friends into each other’s lives, they navigate the blurry lines between friendship and love.

9 mentions

BITTER SWEET SYMPHONY by Matthew Kic, Mike Sorce
In the last days of the Britpop era, enigmatic musician Richard Ashcroft’s quest to transform an obscure Rolling Stones cover into the iconic single “Bitter Sweet Symphony” sparks a legal battle that threatens to both destroy his band The Verve and silence the song forever. ALMOST FAMOUS meets THE SOCIAL NETWORK.

DO NOT DISTURB by Ben Miller
When a bumbling pretty-boy criminal screws up a job, he and his scruffy partner decide to lay low at a luxury LA hotel where they cross with a British playwright and a Hollywood starlet.

DOG by Lucy Campbell
Lukas and Sofia’s new life in a small town is shattered when they return home one night to find their dog gruesomely killed — was it a wild animal, a neighbour or a sinister, supernatural force from the valley? Desperate for the truth, Lukas embarks on a witch hunt after evidence points to a young local boy — but as they are plagued by further unexplained, malevolent events, the family unit unravels with devastating consequences.

DYERSVILLE by Will Hettinger
Two Federal Marshals guarding the most important cooperating witness in Chicago’s history — a legendary gangster — are forced to reckon with their own complicated pasts and with the first mole in the history of the witness protection program. Inspired by true events.

EX-CONS by Michael Montemayor
A former husband-and-wife jewel thief duo, now divorced and in jail, must team up to help the authorities catch the most elusive thief of all: their son.

GOLDEN BOY by Connor Martin
To save his cash-strapped soccer club, the owner of SSC Napoli stakes his reputation and the taxpayers’ dollars on a mercurial, drug-addicted star named Diego Maradona.

GRAVE EXPECTATIONS by Sam Wright
After the recession hits their funeral business hard, a desperate mother is convinced by her manipulative daughter to start a risky side hustle — selling body parts. Based on a true story.

IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S ME by Shane Kennedy, Ant Simpson
When Nick and Sophie break up just days before the lavish destination wedding of his best friend and her sister, they vow to keep it a secret until after the nuptials. But what should be a simple white lie becomes a living nightmare when a mystical encounter turns them into the one thing they hate most in the world: each other.

MILDRED by Josh Corbin
Years after being banished from her family, an aging matriarch returns to the family business to save her estranged children from a deadly criminal syndicate.

NDA by Audrey Ellis Fox
Through a maddening day of mediation for an office harassment claim she filed, the clock is ticking on Dana as she questions the price of her silence, sanity, and the truth.

A PAYROLL TO MEET by Joseph Sloman
Based on David Whitford’s best-selling book chronicling the true story of college sports’ greatest scandal, a Dallas real estate tycoon spearheads the rise-and-fall of SMU football’s Pony Express.

RIPE! by Tusk (Kelly Furrh and Olivia Mitchell)
Nothing says “it’s complicated” like breaking your crush’s arm. Set in rural Spain against the backdrop of a passionate soccer rivalry, the story follows young protagonists Sophie and Gloria as they navigate their relationship.

THUMB by Cesar Vitale
When a lonely and socially-stunted young woman mistakenly receives a severed thumb in the mail, she makes it her life’s obsession to return it to the hand it once belonged to — putting her on a collision course that will upend her world forever.

YELLOW WALLPAPER by Taylor Streitz
A headstrong woman living in 1975 America descends into madness as she battles postpartum depression, dismissive family, and a gaslighting husband. The mounting oppression and untreated psychosis come together to tell the origin story of a haunted house.

I will have stats and analysis of this year’s Black List later on this week, but what trends do YOU see? It’s an interesting way to interpret what Hollywood movers and shakers are interested in at present.

Also this: It’s the return of the Black List Word Cloud Logline Challenge! Be on the lookout for that — with prizes!

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You may download the official 2024 Annual Black List here.